I don't think someone saying something in an OpEd is the same as the NYT uncritically publishing a claim, and nor do I think "race has some biological reality" is definitionally racism.
That said, I do think Pinker is in fact a racist, so, you know, so it goes.
That said, I do think Pinker is in fact a racist, so, you know, so it goes.
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Corey Atad
amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.”
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
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I guess she's not very good at "completely" hiding this thing, is she?
https://youtu.be/MLLPgyyfRd4?si=jO_wmwSNwwksTplh?t=0h0m35s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1733_slave_insurrection_on_St._John
And take your overt smokey eye with you.
As a total sidetrack, I've noticed a number of people in this thread using "definitionally" as if it's synonymous with "incontrovertibly" and for some reason this is activating my inner pedant. Off for a ponder as to why
Scientific enquiry addresses its object as a material ontology, in isolation from the totality of social relations around it. Racism...
(not defending or excusing him, but i do know him, & have... questions. and ...thoughts....)
Because the statement makes it sound like "race" is a category that can, in fact, be described / deliniated by means of the natural sciences.
It can not.
"race has some biological reality"
or similar being uttered, was by racists.
(Example - I was in teacher training when my mentor told class that "races are a biological reality". No, the fuck they are not.
(direct quote, btw)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bfopinion/race-genetics-david-reich#.bi00VOnb5
So useless that you're sure there's an alternative agenda.
*Racism
Also they'll be ignoring that factors like poverty and systemic oppression have on education outcomes in general...
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Because I've never seen such a collection of idiots.
Looks to me like a lot of his “findings” are mottes, with commonly-understood right-wing baileys.
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One of the moments I was grateful for being a mellow drunk, because anyone else hears that 4 Old Fashioneds in?
https://www.ashg.org/publications-news/ashg-news/statement-regarding-good-genes-human-genetics/
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/pdf/S0002-9297(18)30363-X.pdf
"Pure races, in the sense of genetically homogenous populations, do not exist"
https://bioanth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AAPA_Biological_Race_1996.pdf
http://bioanth.org/about/aaba-statement-on-race-racism/
He's careful not to say this directly but the past 25 years of his promoting racists who DO say those things is evidence enough for his racism.
by the same token, publishing the op-ed this way is definitionally uncritical
The confirmed biological reality of race there is "some risk factors for prostate cancer are more common in men of West African descent." Then there's a lot of speculation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-race.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Jk8.hSdJ.NirXTnwT0jus&smid=url-share
Outside of a conversation on melanin and epicanthic folds I’m drawing a blank, but I could be persuaded
Do you have evidence supporting Pinker to be a racist? I'm skeptical.
(1/n)
So yeah, race is nothing but a social construct that has no place in reality. (2/2)
They pretend it’s forbidden knowledge that matters, when it’s actually boring knowledge that doesn’t.
It's like setting birches and fungus (white skin), cacti, seaweed (green skin), and all other plants (grey skin) as the three groups of plants.
Dumb